First, at whatever time you drag in: Yes, I’ll be finishing Rhodes to Hell (I HOPE TODAY). Yes, I’m up because Indy needed food and every time I ignored him, he’d run downstairs and I got tired of trying to figure out what the crashes and drags were. I’ll tell you sometime. Not disastrous, some of it very funny. When he brought me the bag of treats he’d been trying to open (it was bitten all over and covered in cat spit) I finally got up. However, I also had phone calls with friends that delayed me getting here. So, if you drag in at 4 pm, that’s okay. (I might finish Rhodes tomorrow. I keep getting phone calls. And they’re amazing. you guys are the best.)
Second, before you take off your party hat….
Third: Now take off your party hat, get yourself a cup of King Harv’s Neptune or Harmony Coffees Nocturne (What can I say, I like N coffees, apparently) from the coffee room, get your tablet and sit down. This is a working meeting. Afterwards there will be time to hit youtube and find the leftist meltdowns and other amusements. For now, let’s talk about the long and difficult road ahead.
I’ll start by getting out of the way “Sarah, why were you so scared?” Oh, honeys, because it turns out my brain was working the same way as Elon’s. I’m surprised people on our side were making fun of us with “Oh, don’t be stupid, this isn’t the last election!”
None of us thought it would be the last election. Only the last meaningful on. My fears perfectly match Elon’s. I was afraid they’d consolidate their hold on our election process, so that we’d become essentially California, a one party state where only democrats can win because the fraud and corruption is built in.
THAT was the fear eating at my brain. That and knowing how immense the fraud was and how huge the abyss we’d fall into. Note, I’ve recently saw the result of a society without a first amendment. It ain’t pretty. They think they are free. The level they’re propagandized exceeds everything the MSM tries to do to us. And there are things like Spain tearing down her hydroelectric plants and dams on eco freak bs, then getting floods and blaming it on “global warming.” Once you tumble down that abyss you have trouble getting back up ever again. Looks at California.
The win yes, took work, but it was still a miracle. If you’re religious, go on knees and thank Him that he’s still looking out for fools, drunkards and the United States of America. (The last, greatest hope of mankind.)
It was a miracle.
Now they built this miracle themselves to an extent. Despite working to get us to where we were before the election for at least 100 years, they destroyed their chances themselves to an extent. They can’t help it. Evil oft doth Evil mar, amIright? Let me count the ways (not exhaustive because mostly asleep:)
- If they’d let Trump take the win in 2020, they could have stymied him as they did the first four years. They’d have taken some losses, but they’d probably now be taking a genuine (not more frauded than their normal) wins and be able to undo everything he did. Instead, they created their own destructor.
- They could have taken it slowly these four years and not tried to import the world in illegal migrants. Boil the frog slowly, and most people wouldn’t have been pinched enough to realize their lives were at stake.
- They could have left Trump alone in retirement. I’m convinced he only ran because he knew otherwise once he was off the public eye, they’d kill him somehow.
- Going back further, they could not have humiliated Trump by making fun of his ambition of becoming president.
- They could not have transed Elon’s child. And a lot of other people’s children.
Which is handy. Because their incompetence and hubris helps. Without them, we frankly wouldn’t have a chance.
On the other hand, we can’t trust them to do all the work for us.
The left has been PATIENTLY building this trap for Western Civilization for a hundred years. Meanwhile the right has been going to work, getting married, raising fat babies, and only paying attention to politics when the situation is dire.
I’m sorry. We can’t do that anymore. Obviously, we have an assist of some sort going on, whether you think it’s Richard Fernandez “conscious memes” or G-d or even the collective subconscious. Or just collectivist stupid and the fact their “solutions” never work.
However we’re still in the same trap we were before. There are “Swing states” because most states have been pinned down (I believe mostly by fraud in their own most populous cities) and cannot change from dem. Even if they want to.
This must change, and it must change fast.
The most important item on our agenda is to clean up the elections. Get rid of the fraud, and do it now. As fast as you can. Apply all your spare energies to this. Find and expose all the fraud. I believe Elon and Trump have that on their agenda too.
Second, get rid of illegals and pseudo refugees and lock down immigration (legal) to a manageable number of people we can use and have a need for per year. Ignore color, orientation, etc. Just people we can use (I don’t mean HB1s which are destroying our kids’ futures, no. Those games by companies NEED to stop) and who want TO BECOME AMERICANS. And make Fit in or Fuck Off a thing. You come here, you learn English and you FIT IN. No handouts and no accommodations. No more Oprima 1 por Espanol.
Actually, heaven help me, and my own bias is showing, but I’d start deportations on the basis of “Do you speak enough English to get by?” If you’re not legal, and you need help to transact every day business in English, out you go. Now. Yesterday. If your parents are illegal but you were born here, you have a year to become fluent enough in English. Otherwise, we don’t care where you go, but you can’t stay here. No more accommodations, no more handouts, no more kids in “bilingual” meaning Spanish only classes in our public schools.
Third – this is a stretch goal and I don’t think we can do it in four years (though Dobbs surprised me too) but the constitution guarantees every state a “Republican form of government” but states don’t have an electoral college. They’re direct democracy. This assumes the interests of NYC and rural NY are the same, and is therefore utterly wrong and oppressive. Yes, I know it’s the result of a SC decision. SO WHAT? It was wrong and it must be reversed. Start talking about it/agitating for it. Free California, Illinois and NY. Oh, and my beloved Colorado too.
Fourth – let’s agitate to get as close to “one day, paper ballots, purple fingers” as we can. Okay?
Fifth – The press. The wretched press. And entertainment. Starve them out. If you want to know what they’re saying find ways that don’t give them money. AND WORK ON THE ALTERNATIVES. (I’m good at that.)
Sixth – some of you got stuck with “ranked choice”. This is so fraudable, it’s worse than vote by mail. Start working on reversing that. Education, agitation, WORK.
Seventh – let’s recognize the Huns — hello Steve N! — who have been doing the ground work against fraud for years. Keep up the good work, and may many people join you.
There are other things. Our education is appalling. Trump is going to give us a big assist at that as is Delos D. Harriman Elon Musk. Also at deregulating so we can be productive. But we have to do the work too.
To be clear, what we won is the right to fight on. It is enough. We are creative and smart and capable.
One side of this: get as healthy as you can. This is a long fight, and some of us are not spring chickens, as this stupid pneumonia brought home to me.
Now, take a break and watch tasty tasty democrat meltdown videos. post the best in the comments.
Tomorrow we start the work of restoring the republic. I’ll be unpacking what we need to do over the last several days.
In the end, we win, they lose. It won’t be easy nor simple, but we owe it to the the future yet unborn and to the graves of our ancestors (real or ideological.)
It’s going to be an amazing fight.
What a time to be alive!
Go.
According To Hoyt 
:raises hand: And if, right now, you can only start small with starving the entertainment industry, try injecting some actual fun into your local public libraries. Here’s a how-to you can follow to get started – perhaps with our hostess’s books: https://open.substack.com/pub/upstreamreviews/p/independent-authors-books-at-the?r=1jzuql&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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We can absolutely control our dollars and our eyeballs. Starve the Hollywood and mainstream media beast. Go indy!
I’d like to recommend the Sunday morning Ace of Spades book thread, for your reading needs. I think every book that I have bought for entertainment reading in the last four or five years has been one mentioned or recommended on the book thread.
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Also the promo post here. :D
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I use the promo posts here, pay attention to listings from OldNFO/TXRed/ATH, and what gets mentioned/announced at Mad Genius Club. I have Amazon follows for some authors, but find it misses off and on. Not sure if that’s from wokista influence or ‘zon’s software emulating WordPress.
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Many years ago I got frustrated with the trash on the library shelves and tried to donate some books. I was told that they would go right onto the sale rack because they had not been approved by the selection committee.
I sent recommendations to the selection committee. Crickets.
I haven’t really haunted a library since.
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I am the volunteer (i.e. unpaid) librarian of our little city library. All our books are donations (reflecting the reading tastes of our patrons. The only donations rejected (besides duplicates – we are short of shelf space) are books so esoteric that no one is ever likely to read them or so badly written that they should never be inflicted on a reader. These are put on sale at a thrifty 25 to 50 cents. Usually nobody buys the latter two categories either.
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This. Our local library system (Timberland Regional) conducted their purge a couple years back. For a brief but noticeable time their entire SYSTEM had no, I repeat NO, biographies of Robert E. Lee. NONE. I theorize that this was due to the Purge and the prior holdings (by such notables as Fitzhugh Lee, Freeman, Long, et al.) discarded in favor of a more “modern” take.
During this period, I visited one of the larger Timberland libraries. Naturally I checked their nonfiction section, U.S. history, the War Between The States. The entire topic occupied half a shelf. The Spanish-American War, by contrast, took up a FULL shelf.
I haven’t donated or set foot in a Timberland library since, and have intensified my efforts to fill out my own collection.
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The used book seller in Flyover Falls only wants recent best sellers, so I walked. Took a box-o-books to the library branch in $TINY_TOWN, and they were thrilled. If the book was too odd (I included some SF Book Club stuff from the early-mid 1970s, though they didn’t get the worst of the walled stuff), they’d put it up for the rummage sale, but most of that box went on the shelves. I had my fill of Tom Clancy, so somebody else got something to read.
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“God bless those boys. Turned out all they needed was a fair fight” — Admiral Halsey, ‘Midway’ (2019 movie)
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Fair fight?
It was an absolutely magnificent -ambush-. Our Navy fights! “Fair” is for imbeciles.
“Fair Fight” is a Despicable Hollyweird -slur-.
It was an absolutely magnificent -ambush-, properly so, and USN kicked IJN buttocks up over their heads.
Surprise!
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A fair fight is a romantic notion promulgated by idiots who have never been in a real fight. Queensbury rules were instituted because fighters were getting permanently injured or killed, reducing the ‘contestants’ for people to watch and scream for, ultimately hurting the fight promoter’s bottom line. “Championship wrestling” is all about show. Can’t actually afford to have wrestlers getting hurt for real.
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Boxing and MMA are violent sports, not real fights. Can get close, like when Tyson ate an ear, but not “real”, just “violent”.
If you are not supposed to crush nuts, gouge eyes, and -wreck- the other guy, it ain’t a “fight”.
There are no rules. There is no “fair”. There is only Victory, or defeat.
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I have had a wonderful time today hanging out in the Discord with some of you amazing people and being snarky and just…celebrating. Not a loud boisterous celebration, but that kind of celebration when the storm blows through and your house is still there and there’s only a few shingles to pick up. (Where I live, in NC, the “shingles” are the fact that we elected a Democratic governor, lieutenant governor, attorney General, superintendent of education…yet Republicans dominated the judicial races and have an 8-1 margin on the state Supreme Court, and a near-supermajority in both houses of the General Assembly. Oh, and Trump won here comfortably. Go figure. Go go gadget gridlock.)
It isn’t the end. It’s not even the beginning of the end. It’s the end of the beginning. But for a day, we can relax, and catch our breath, and plan, and enjoy the lamentations of their womyn and fake womyn. And then it’s back to work. This country isn’t going to save itself.
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What I saw was the R gubernatorial candidate had a sex scandal and not even doing yeoman’s work in western NC could make up for it. Don’t know about the rest.
But I betcha disgust with FEMA played a part throughout the state.
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North Carolina’s Republican gubernatorial candidate, Mark Robinson, was astonishingly inert even before the “black porno-Nazi” accusation got dropped. I didn’t hear of a single campaign stop he made; I didn’t see or hear a single TV or radio ad. The scandal-bomb wasn’t used to defeat him: he was already a sinking ship. It was used to crush Republican turnout, sweep the rest of the statewide offices (with huge aid from a blanket push on abortion: it seemed no Democrat ad for a race below governor didn’t hammer on abortion), and hopefully hit the top of the ticket and drive Harris to victory. Having the red zones of western NC walloped so hard by Helene that people didn’t have roads on which to travel to polling places was an added bonus. (Ultraviolet Asheville was put to rights in time; other areas, eh, it’ll take a year, the authorities said.)
It seems a lot of mountain folk walked for miles across the mud that used to be roads to vote against a Federal government that didn’t care much about them. Good for them. (Not that it helped a lick on the state level.)
FEMA was noted for sending plug-in electric chainsaws into the smashed and power-deprived disaster zone. Let me suggest that, when Donald Trump borrows one of Javier Milei’s chainsaws to get to work in Washington, he specifies a gas-powered one.
Republica restituendae. And perhaps it will be.
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You’re right, Trump will absolutely phone up Milei and ask him to send him a chainsaw. It’ll complete the cool-stunt trifecta: McDonald’s fries, garbage truck, chainsaw.
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Gridlock is often a feature, not a bug.
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Shingles are quite painful.
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Especially when you fall off the roof, while trying to install them.
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Don’t forget flipping three House seats from Dem to Rep. That could be crucial.
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I’m just watching people on Facebook and Twitter losing their mind. I’ve had a few say that they’re expecting Trump to have enough red fabric for Handmaiden cloaks by January 7th. How they’re leaving FB and Twitter for Blue Sky and all of the “alternatives” that even my media-obsessed mind goes “where?” for a few minutes.
For California, I can see three big fixes that will do more than anything else deal with the issues that we have-
1-Reforms to redistricting, requiring district boundaries to be contiguous with city, county, state, and Federal borders. There are a lot of carefully jerrymandered districts in California, especially around the LA and San Francisco area, to ensure that the Blue is as deep and as biddable as possible.
2-Election reforms, to include requiring ID, notarization for mail-in ballots, and similar measures to make it harder for fraud to work.
3-Full enforcement of Prop 209 and similar laws, so that illegals cannot access non-emergency programs.
Handle immigration reform, deport violent and repeat criminals across the border (with a warning that we would hang them if they are found here again, and make it stick), do the reforms needed to make it harder for American companies to bring in H1B contractors (who are being exploited like hell, especially in the tech industries) and make it harder to offshore programs to “cheaper” countries and places.
Start making it easier for businesses to work here, get more power plants up and running, deal with gas production, and in general start making costs drop by good logistics and production, not artificial controls.
It is not the beginning of the end of the last 75+ years of the socialist experiment here in the United States. But perhaps it is the end of the beginning of the war.
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From my experience shortly after Y2K, there was a strong incentive to offshore production. Silicon Valley went from the biggest center of integrated circuit manufacturing to close to nothing in about 10 years, and a lot of the switch happened just as the first dot-com boom turned to a bust.
After I was laid off in 2001, the only silicon manufacturing going on in the Valley were some smaller RF circuit outfits. Micron and TI were still making chips, but the equipment manufacturers saw the writing on the wall and were moving out of the country.
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I believe he means software development, not hardware.
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Both situations are relevant. Manufacturing went from “You have to site your plant here!” to “Get that toxic, dangerous, cootie laden plant out of our city.”
I had some experience working with programmers offshore (both in SE Asia and in Deepest Bavaria, where I was the offshore worker), and it’s not a good way to get it done.
Not so curiously, dealing with a manufacturing plant that’s most of the planet away is also not a good way to get it done. (Most of the assembly of ICs for my products was done in Asia. That generated some annoying problems. When making the silicon elsewhere became the norm, it got substantially worse.)
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One company that’s doing it right: https://selinc.com/company/news/137992/ Seems they realized that if you want something done well, sometimes you have to do it yourself. More companies need to be doing this.
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Here’s another one: https://originusa.com/pages/discover#the-origin-story
Defying the tide of offshoring apparel, and sourcing everything in the good ol’ US of A, right down to the cotton.
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“But the Board has a duty to the stockholders to make the most profit possible on their investment, and if that means offshoring, well, we *have* to do it or we could be held liable!”
[unreel as much as necessary]
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The Reader notes that Disney’s board has no such qualms about ignoring their duty to maximize shareholder value.
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And this folks is why you keep your company private.
See also: SpaceX
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(Soapbox)
Fiduciary requirements do not give a legal right of action for strategic choices: If the CEO thinks that on/off/near/friend shoring production is a good idea, shareholders cannot sue to change that. They still have other ways to influence leadership. Fiduciary regulates self-dealing: CEO gives a sinecure to his brother, no bid contracts to another company he owns, etc.
It’s important to get this right to have an accurate understanding of national and corporate behavior: There was not a specific legal risk that any company could avoid by outsourcing, no federal report deciding that the economics clearly favored Taiwan, so outsource or else. The market pressures were enough, absent US gov policy to the contrary (and probably foreign subsidy as well).
(steps off soapbox)
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Shareholders CAN sue for that and many other things…. and often do. Lawfare is not just for politics.
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In my software career I have worked with offshored folk from:
Almost all of this was maintenance work. For India/Vietnam the best were incredibly good, the mediocre were awful and the bad ones broke more stuff than they fixed. Taiwan folks were first rate. Ukraine were meh to mostly OK for developers but their management were the slimiest slimeballs you have ever seen. Their sandbagging nearly cost one company we were working with the whole company as they kept missing delivery dates and then would not give over the code for the software they had written. Three of US American types rewrote it from scratch in about 6 months. The Poles and most of the UK and Irish folks ranged from good to spectacular although occasionally you’d get a bad apple in UK or Ireland they’d just route around them (I think it was very hard to fire for cause).
The geographic distribution can be an advantage as the differing time zones mean you can end up with effectively 24 hr development especially useful if you have a critical bug and do the handoffs correctly. The time differential is a pain. Email/Slack/etc. help but language and cultural differences really bite you on the backside. For example Vietnamese/ Indian tend to be VERY (sometimes superficially) deferential to those considered their superiors add a language barrier and that US software developers tend to have pretty intense personalities and it makers for a real mess. Meetings are a pain. We had a standup meeting with the folks from Taiwan at 600 AM Eastern, that was like 7:00 PM (and they got into the office EARLY their time) which no one liked but with a 13 hour time difference what are you going to do?
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Only worked with individuals in France. Wasn’t hard to remove someone for any reason, but it was very expensive. Then it was 3+ years salary severance. Tended to not get done. Might have been mentioned (groused) when the company started severely downsizing trying to avoid bankruptcy. Until actually went into bankruptcy company could not afford to let anyone in France go for any reason. Rest of us could get walked out with two weeks severance. In the end, the courts just cut the France sub company off, and no one there got any severance.
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In no small reason because of the EPA, and the punishment inflicted on chip manufacturing companies because they use toxic chemicals as a necessity.
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Yeah, the Silicon Valley cube farm I worked at across the Y2K bubble period (we did ASICs) went from building out our own fab up outside Portland to “Gee, which Asian offshore fab process should we use for our designs?” It was all spiraling down through when I got riffed in ’02. Even the R&D fab that was still in the valley was shut down.
The next semi place I worked at (FPGAs) contracted all fab at one of the big Asian fab companies. Even the rad-hard and space stuff we sold was offshore production. Certainly nothing was manufactured in the valley itself.
Of course part of that was the long term ongoing remediation at what used to be Fairchild Semi, where they had to get bulldozers down into the basement to dig out the contaminated soil from under the buildings without tearing down the walls so the dust could not get out.
The only onshore stuff I heard about in those later years was certain specific stuff for some U.S. government agencies that mandated U.S. production. In one case one agency actually bought an entire production line from a manufacturer that was retiring that line, and the agency disassembled it and reassembled it and got it running inside a SCIF on their home campus back east so they could continue making their devices themselves – obviously they did not care about being on the bleeding edge of fabrication technology, just on nobody else seeing what they were making.
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Aye. $SPOUSE worked for a company that had some highly classified stuff built in a more-highly classified SCIF. She related a phone conversation with somebody there: “You’re not supposed to know about us!” “Sorry, but I need to do X and Y with this (non-classified) information.”
I did a simple(ish) IC that went into the AWACs. The most GodAwful design known to mankind, but with a lot of work, it could be made to behave. The commercial version of that same display was considerably better designed, but TPTB weren’t going to spend time and money getting a better part certified for their application. Sigh.
Agreed on the toxic waste stuff. I worked for HP in a (non-HP campus) building on Page Mill road, and the edict that toxic material tanks had to be underground bit several businesses in the ass. We had a leak, and when the monitors started doing their thing, they found that another company upstream of us had their own leak. And so on. And when they got down to El Camino Real, they discovered that Stanford Cleaners had their own leaks. I suspect a few square miles of Page Mill Road/El Camino should have been declared to be one big-ass Superfund site. Nuking from orbit would have been easier. (I don’t know if the main HQ complex had issues. However, the conditions were likely to have been the same. When our division moved to San Jose, we put all the toxic tanks in concrete vaults or in the basements. Still freaked out the fire chief…)
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/snark on
Probably enough illegal alien women to easily fill those handmaiden positions. Considering all the 4b feministas we have, those handy women would be welcome.
/snark off
How many illegal alien boy toys do Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, or Kamala Harrris employ?
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Amen Sister Sarah!
Oh, Trump commented in his Victory Speech that he’s still alive because G*d wanted him to Save America.
And Trump did imply that he needed “our help” to do that.
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Most interesting graph I’ve seen in a long time. https://x.com/zerohedge/status/1854144250562429081
Elon is right. Turn off the money. Not just get rid of the Department of Education. No federal money for education, period. Parents who care educate their own children. Parents who don’t care turn schools into un-policed daycare/juvenile prisons. Let the declared enemies of the Constitution pay for themselves. End federally guaranteed student loans. They’re just a monetary incentive to raise tuition. As to overturning that obnoxious Supreme Court decision, it is a consummation devoutly to be wished.
Unlike 2016, Trump has gathered to himself a team of brilliant, if rowdy, allies. Put Elon to work on his DOGE program. Set RFK Jr. to work on health issues (and keep him away from energy and environmental). Let Tulsi Gabbard loose on the DoD. Not sure who to use to go all Twitter to X on the DOJ and drop 80% of the employees.
Just continue the great ideas Trump had started implementing. Move much of the government out of DC. Reclassify anyone who makes regulations to be a political appointee, not a Civil Service employee. Then make them work for the good of the people or fire their asses.
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I think most of the alphabet agencies need entirely eliminated…and have a very small DOJ just be responsible for crime in the DC boundaries. Since, you know, it isn’t a state.
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They should focus on counter-espionage.
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How on earth did anyone get a university degree before the Department of Education? How did they graduate from high school? Tech school?
All those things were there before 1980, there is just no need for this department at all.
Getting rid of it and the fed money that goes along with it might do wonders for schools today.
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IMNSHO there’s no need for either DoE., HUD, or anything beyond the original set plus Interior (with a single addition). For Departments, let’s get back to Interior, Treasury, State (with close oversight), Navy, War (not “Defense”!), and we’ll throw in Air Force. And a USSC decision defining the meaning of “interstate commerce”, in line with its meaning as conceived in 1787, would be a Nice To Have…
Take a look at this…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_executive_departments
…and try to figure out why Agriculture even exists, and needs a budget of almost a quarter of a trillion dollars. And HHS, at over 1-3/4 trillion!
I wonder if Elon would like to hire Javier part-time…
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After I posted that, I ran across this:
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentinas-milei-meet-with-trump-musk-next-week-us-2024-11-07/
Looks like they might be ahead of me…😉😁😁
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And NASA. It was created to put men on the moon. They did that. They’ve been floundering around looking for a purpose ever since. Today, they mostly get in the way of people doing a better job.
The Apollo program was the biggest, most expensive publicity stunt in history. All the marvelous rockets and machines they built were for that one purpose, and of very little use for anything else. Its success convinced generations that gigantic government programs were The Way To Get Things Done. And here we are.
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And yet the tech developed for it has been crucial everywhere else.
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Both are correct. NASA has had essentially zero utility in its primary job since the end of the Shuttle program, but the spinoffs of the early space efforts, from IC development to such banalities as space pens, have been far-reaching.
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“Defense” is because when they re-merged War and Navy, they renamed it to prevent interservice issues.
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I’ve seen comments that it also allowed TPTB to get around the Constitutional requirement (Article 1, Section 7) that any appropriation “…to raise and support Armies” could not be for more than 2 years; the DoD has no such restriction. The Founders correctly thought that a standing army is a potential threat to the civilian government, while a navy (“To provide and maintain a Navy”; same section, no time restriction) is not.
Of course, as has been pointed out, the Navy has its own Army (USMC) and (now) its own Air Force, and its Army also has its own Air Force. Tech advances tend to muddle things…😉
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PUT RFK on the CIA. Let him play ducks and ganders with it.
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One approach would be to undo the laws and regulations that created the problems in the first place. To wit: Both Student loan debt and consumer credit card debt ballooned after Congress made both undischargeable by bankruptcy. That made them very profitable for creditors, because the debtors could never get off the hook.
There are two ways out of this particular mess. Inflate the debts away, which will hurt everybody or reinstate bankruptcy which will hurt the creditors who have profited from it.
Even with a republican congress, I suspect the big banks and funds would fight this.
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There’s a bar chart floating around Twitter showing how off the number of votes was last time. Some people seem to almost -almost- realize something was wrong.
The true-believers think Republicans stole the election by somehow not counting those extra votes…
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Well, dropping back from lol81million down to about what Barry got at, latest, 67million does make the lol81million number stand out a bit.
I guess Barry didn’t count those extras either.
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Getting Harris up to Obama levels is impressive enough on its own. I knew people who actually viewed him as some sort of secular savior, and were not at all shy about sharing their rapture.
(Shrug) I don’t think anybody was honestly inspired by Harris.
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I am off two minds on why Kamala did not see the 81 million number but did match Obama. My suspicion is that Obumbles 2012 numbers consisted of 4 basic constituencies
I assume that the useful idiots were either sitting out or lower in Obama vs Romney which is where I get the 5% figure from the difference in 2012 vs 2008
Looking at the last 4 races we have (rounded to the nearest million)
Year Democrat Republican Turnout Dem -Rep
2008 69m 60M 129M 9M
2012 66M 61M 127M 5M
2016 66M 63M 129M 3M
2020 81M 74M 155M 7M
2024 68M 73M 141M -5M
So in the middle of the covid foofoorah the turnout was 25M (19%) more than the previous 3 elections (and 2008 was a BIG turnout because of the historical first black candidate)? There clearly was some increase there look at the Trump(R) vote its 9M more than 2016 or about 17% greater. so for sake of argument lets say Biden got the same 17% boost (not fully buying it but just saying for sake of argument) he’d have had 77M votes or about the same 3M absolute number of votes that Hilary beat Trump in the popular vote, and likely in the same blue places which would have lead to the same Electoral college defeat. So that puts the lower bound on our EXCESS cheat (i.e. above and beyond the traditional cheat which should be in the Obama/Clinton stats) at about 4M Votes. Looking at the current (which is as of 10 AM today AP numbers for what that’s worth) figures Kamala got almost as much as Obama try one. Except we KNOW many of the specific constituencies (Hispanic, Black Male) were changing to R. My suspicion is that much if not ALL of the 4M “excess” is baked in that number, but that Kamala’s support in the forced diversity and useful idiots groups was so low that really all she had was the base (marching morons) and the default (mostly pointless blue region) default fraud and a smattering of useless idiots and forced diversity. I suspect that 68M includes a large part of the Excess Fraud from 2020, but between Kamala being such a crap cadidate, and Biden/Harris admin and its fellow travelers (I’m looking at YOU Ms Hochul and Ms Whitmer) being idiots the excess fraud still leaves her 5M in the hole. By attacking the vulnerable part of her base (the forced diversity) and keeping their own base Trump and the Trump team caused what looked to be a miracle.
Hallelujah. This particular competence also hints that perhaps Trump will not let himself be played by the GOPe this time
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I’m here to tell you Obama already had a lot of fraud I poll watched.
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I suspect that in 20-50 years we find out it wasn’t the Donks pumping and dumping 2020, it was China.
Trying to induce chaos and maybe a real war.
The lack of a major stuff the box effort in 2024 doesn’t fit the Donk pattern of doubling down. And Biden sure isn’t a deep conspiracy genius even 4 years ago.
The Donks and their “fortification” were “helped”, and we were supposed to lose our shit and revolt. Sure, was Donks doing it. But likely for CCP assets.
Who decided a second helping wasnt going to work, and might just get them caught and nuked.
heh.
Could have been Russia and or Iran, but neither are usually that sly+effective.
And I suspect Trump may be suspecting the CCP right about now.
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Not very accommodating are we?
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The Dems are (a lot of them) owned by the Chinese.
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Unfortunately, getting most states to change one of their legislative bodies back to geographically based would be very difficult. Overturning the court decision (which is an absurd one) would be the easy part. Convincing the population centers to voluntarily transfer some of their political power back to the rural areas would be the hard part. It might be doable in places like Wyoming, which are heavily rural. But I’ve no idea how you would pull it off in most states.
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Again “Guaranteed a Republican form of Government. Current shenanigans are UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
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Could be done in Indiana — a) supermajority GOP in both houses, b) GOP governor, c) largest metro is only 1/7 the population of the state. The state went heavily R except in four or five counties (out of 92). The only people who would complain would be the ones in those counties (one of them being the largest metro) and the rest of the state would be like “eff you”.
The SCOTUS precedents need to be abolished first, though.
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FWIW, there are three cases, all from the Warren *spit* Court, that are involved.
Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964)
Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (1962)
Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1 (1964)
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Baker is the key case. It had a double whammy: states must redistrict every 10 years, and the federal courts may intervene in redistricting.
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And somehow I can find nothing in the Constitution allowing that intervention. In fact, since it’s not an enumerated Federal power it seems to be in direct conflict with the 10th Amendment.
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IIRC they did it under the good old 14th amendment, or as I like to call it, the last refuge of scoundrels.
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That only addresses restrictions on voting, obviously directed to the disenfranchising of former slaves. It says nothing about intervention in redistricting.
Of course, like the infamous interstate commerce clause, it was probably twisted until it squealed.
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Bob, the redistricting was done under the Voting Rights Act, which was how Congress implemented protecting slaves and their descendants under the 14th.
Section 5
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
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Precisely; “the provisions of this article”. And as I wrote, nothing in those provisions mentions Federal interference in redistricting. The 14th guarantees the right to vote, not a right to carve out “safe” voting districts based on race. Redistricting interference was included in the Voting Rights Act by fiat. You can argue that it promotes “fairness” if you wish, but it’s not guaranteed by any part of the Constitution.
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You were asking how they did it; that’s how, and SCOTUS agreed.
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OK; thanks. So basically, it was the same way that the same Court found a “right to abortion” in the “penumbra of emanations” from the Constitution, or that various Courts have found multiple paths to increased Federal control based on the interstate commerce clause – by “creative reading”. :-x
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No, SCOTUS precedent doesn’t get abolished until a case involving it comes before the court. You would need to convince a state to do this, and then wait for the progs (probably led by the ACLU, in this case) to file the inevitable lawsuit. Then the state government would appeal the resulting decisions all the way up to the USSC. That hearing would hopefully result in the precedent going away.
So, law that contradicts the decisions first, and then the decisions are overturned during USSC review.
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…and the Supremes would simply declare the states had “no standing”, as they did when 27 states filed a joint suit over the 2020 election fraud.
The Constitution isn’t perfect, and the uncheckable power of the Supreme Court is one of its problems.
“We’re a nation of laws!”
“What does the law say?”
“Whatever we interpret it as. Neener-neener!”
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If you notice, a big difference in 2024 was that the RNC got lawsuits going early, and got much more results, than 2020.
I think that someone reminded John “Taney Jr” Roberts that when the court tries to duck contentious issues, the result is that people decide to open box 4.
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That particular ruling was a horrible tyranny, and the justices who voted in favor of “no standing” should have been impeached and removed. The citizens of this country, and our elected state officials, ALWAYS have standing in legal matters that directly affect us.
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Not having the BLM riots for months prior helped. The riots were designed to intimidate the judges. It worked.
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Sarah, do you REALLY think the Justices were more intimidated by the BLM mobs than they were by the Dobbs mobs (that we KNOW produced one assassin, if a lame one)?
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Yes, I do. Because remember that summer. they projected HUGE mobs for BLM. They weren’t real, but they appeared real, and the idiots thought we were on the verge of revolution.
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The defendant in a lawsuit always has standing. In fact, the defendant is the one person who *always* has standing.
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There is a way to check the power of the Supreme Court. But I would be *very* – and I mean *VERY* – careful before calling for the impeachment of one or more members of the court based on a flagrantly bad ruling. If it’s not for a ruling that everyone – and I mean 95% or more of the population – agrees is an utter travesty, then you’ll be opening a huge can of worms.
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I realize I’m late to this party, but work last week was “interesting”.
People need to realize that impeachment probably won’t happen for ANYONE. You’re almost never going to get someone that disliked that at least 2/3+1 of the Senators will confirm and remove.
In fact, the only one in the last 25 years is probably Donald Trump. Alcee Hastings was in the 90s IIRC. Anyone else, there’s probably Epstein level blackmail involved.
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Oh, and give Rob Reiner a match, and wish Bette Midler, “Cheers!”
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Today, give it to Him.
Tomorrow…give them hell.
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Look, let me preface this with saying I don’t put that much stock into the “let’s turn people into widgets by generation” as the media does…
But when you look at the participation and voting slant of the oft-ignored, written-off, and notoriously unherdable Generation X, let me just say this once:
THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!
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I am very proud of my generation just now. They just WOULD NOT LEAVE US ALONE, and finally we got tired of it.
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Those of us who remembered Carter, saw Reagan arrive, and have living memory of the fact that doom, gloom, and managed decline are a bad dream from which we can awaken. Gen X.
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Amen. Leaving us the question of why Europe hasn’t.
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Because those ornery enough to do something about it all sailed for America. Of all people not to figure that out … sheesh.
<wink>
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A couple of takes from overseas:
Nathan Ruser, open source intel guy posting from Oz, on X:
“I think the rest of the world just has to realise the US we thought we all knew probably just doesn’t exist and hasn’t for a while. We need to shift our assumptions and look at the US in the same way we look at India.”
George Tsartsidze from Georgia, the country not the state, on the civil.ge mailing list:
“October 27, 2024, was one of the hardest mornings for many Georgians to wake up to. November 6 wasn’t any easier. Just as the pro-Western segment of the country was piecing together the evidence of the alleged scheme behind the shock victory of the Georgian Dream, figuring out the next steps, and searching within itself for the strength to continue the struggle, the re-election of Donal Trump in the United States plunged the country into a whole new level of uncertainty. The hard question now is what it takes to save democracy in one country when democratic values are under threat elsewhere. A bigger question, however, is whether democracy will remain our main focus at all.”
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And Konstantin Kisin with a YT explainer video for Europeans: 10 Reasons You Didn’t See This Coming (if WP actually posts this link):
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I saw his post on X. It’s very good.
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Meanwhile, a commentor that I saw on X had the following to say –
So, despite the hysteria in much of the world, some of the people in Ukraine who are actively involved in the war are optimistic about Trump’s impending presidency.
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I can only imagine how frustrated the folks over there at the kinetic end of the stick are by now with the endless “de-escalation” and “red line phobic” factions at Foggy Bottom who have kept stuff that was sitting around in storage or even being decommissioned and destroyed in US stocks from being sent over there in the first months of the invasion, and years later when stuff was finally sent, being delivered only in tiny slow trickles, for fear of making Vlad angry.
OTOH I understand the troops absolutely love the Bradley, which they can only get from us.
I’ve been saying we should clear out all the previous gen stuff (or older – rumor has it there are still HAWK SAM systems in US storage somewhere) in our not-scrapped-yet stocks and ship it all to Ukraine. We’re not going to be reconditioning it to defend the Fulda Gap with it any time soon, so why not get it off the books. A surge worked in Iraq to end things there until Barry ran away, so how about a logistics surge to Ukraine?
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I am a fan of the Bradley. Like any system, it has compromises one can argue. But it is proven effective when we use it properly. Tank destroyer versus tank. Mobile support pillbox for mech infantry. Grunt scooter.
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Team Brandon has been slow rolling hardware aid ever since the invasion, but per reporting today they’ve had a post-election panic and are rushing to deliver any and all remaining anything before Inauguration Day.
In an effort to try and tell what’s really going on I found a pointer that led me to the story lined below that was matching the DOS types in being all a-panic, “Oh noes, Basic Training cut to One Week!” but actually reading the story itself, it does not come out nearly so bad. It sounds like the Ukrainians are still able to rotate troops out of combat to Poland for training cycles, and despite the tone of the story, a month for brigade command training course is not that short, though a week for small unit training, even for combat veteran units, sounds pretty compressed (infantry types can chime in).
But it also reports a big issue is still equipment supply – which has been the major stuff slow rolled thanks to The Foggy Bottom Boys, afraid of making Vlad mad. Look where that got them.
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2024/11/pace-war-shortens-eu-based-training-ukrainian-troops/400895/
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Democrats love endless wars with high body counts on both sides, unless it’s their own kids dying.
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Which was exactly Trump’s point with the comment that Liz Cheney should take her place on the battlefield and face the same guns she wants US troops to face and die from (lied about by the MSM, of course, like his “bloodbath” comment). And regardless of her “official” political affiliation, she is a Dem, like every RINO.
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And some women are capable of fighting on the battlefield. But only the top 20% (barely) overlap into the men’s average for physical ability, and physical ability is of primary concern in that environment. Women SEALS? Not one in a million.
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Yep. Despite quite a bit of fiction, as long as battlefields require physical strength and stamina women in general are underqualified by nature to be there. Note the stress; there are some women who can do just fine in combat, as various cultures, from the Parthians to the IDF, have demonstrated, although not usually as ax(wo)men. But if the job calls for sneaky…😉
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As illustrated by the recent cases of mediocre male athletes ‘transitioning’ and then handily beating the best women athletes.
If they don’t want to separate mens and womens sports based on wildly disparate physical capabilities, why continue to have weight classes in boxing? Just toss a scrawny 130 pound guy in the ring with Tyrus; what could go wrong?
(Tyrus is 6′ 8″ and weighs over 300 pounds. I know, he’s a professional wrestler, but I’m sure he could box if he wanted to)
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Top 5% more like, for serious tasks.
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I KNOW. I could pre-menopause.
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IDIOTS.
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A major German newspaper’s front page carried a four-letter Anglo-Saxon word to express their feelings about Trump’s victory. Did I see something about the German government having troubles this morning, or was that clickbait?
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Yes, apparently Germany’s current government is on the verge of collapse.
The problem – as I heard it described today – is that only an alliance between CDU and AFD has the numbers right now to form a government. But CDU refuses to work with AFD.
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cool with that. If I have to identify with one of the generations, I’ll go with X. Fits me better.
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Generationally (is that really a word? Pfft) I’m as Boomer as I can get, but I’m damned proud of my fellow ‘Muricans regardless of age. The Gen X’s did themselves proud.
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We couldn’t have done it without everyone else defending the walls with their votes, y’know?
But together, we got ‘er done.
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I still like “Generation Pooper Scooper” the best. A functional definition of who we are and what we tend to do naturally. (I’m very close to your age, too.)
Yet, “unlike wines, humans are not best defined by their vintage.”
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X would be fine with me; I’m barely a boomer (Dec ’45). And even though we’re slowly vanishing, I think we tend to vote intelligently. With some notable exceptions, of course.😉
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Ignore us, block us from office, leave us off demographic charts (yes, seriously), and then tax and regulate and immiserate us. And you wonder why we finally bite and bite hard?
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You say Gen X, I say rural voters in a blue-controlled state. Tomato, Tomahto. We also bite when we can. Viva la Deplorables!
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Ah. My years got EATEN by the boomers over the 90s. After the boomers calling us names forever. I want nothing to do with that.
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Yeah, but the nerdlings will call anyone a Boomer who has gray (ing) hair.
The original “baby boom” definition was 1942-1946. Then it kept getting extended. The end of the Boom is commonly placed in the mid-1960s now, which would be the *children* of people who were born in the 1940s.
Like so many words and phrases, it has been misused to the point where it has no useful meaning.
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I was born in 1952, and at least where I lived, that seemed to be the peak of the flow through the schools. (Fairly broad peak, maybe 5 years or so.)
Both of the elementary schools I attended have been repurposed or sold to private interests. (The former, adult education, the latter, an after school nanny/activity/homework center. So much for my old latchkey childhood with Mom a part time secretary.)
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Oddly enough when the first Gen X was being brutted about it included several cohorts technically born in the boom.
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The thing that I was reminded of this morning is, the cover-up is always worse than the crime. Because why would one stop at less than one’s already done?
That said, I am also thinking about an observation Whatifalthist made in his bureaucracy killing civilization video, that despite most of the great historians of the post WWII era apparently believing that rule by bureaucracy was horrible, they all expected it to win out, because it was more organized, than capitalism.
The collapse of the major bureaucracy states, such as the Soviet Union and at least temporary collapse of Maoist China was an unexpected surprise, and indicates Capitalism’s true superiority.
Ultimately, while capitalism and free markets are chaotic, and have no clue what to do with Envy, they also allow people to form and bond their own structures as they need or want, adapting to the problems of the time.
Meanwhile bureaucracy merely scoops out men’s chests and fills the empty hole with newspaper stuffing. They may stand impressive for a time, but rain or fire sweeps them away.
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The Reader believes the question of Envy is fundamental in addressing how to shed socialism in all its forms from the body politic. As you note capitalism alone does not address it.
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I’m inclined to agree. I suspect if free markets are ever dethroned as the best economic system, it will because some newer economic system wok have found that better way to handle envy without giving up what free markets do in the process.
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The Reader notes that in John Locke’s formulation of natural rights property rights are ‘upstream’ of Adam Smith’s invisible hand.
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I said elsewhere, and I’ll repeat it: we need to treat EVERY election going forward like this one. Like it’s the last chance. I think a lot of fraud was prevented because, this time, people were watching like *hawks* and calling out shenanigans before they got very far. And the voter turnout–at least on the conservative side–was astonishing. That’s going to be hard to convince people to do when they’re not worried about the border and the economy, or that it’s equally important to do it for local elections as national. I admit: most of the local folks on the ballot yesterday? No idea about their track record. (Well, except for one I used to go to church with, and his shenanigans in his personal life make me not want to even vote him in as dog catcher.) I really, really need to do better on that front–I think most of us do. Because it really is at the local levels that we can truly start effective change–unfortunately, the lefties figured that out long ago (esp with things like, oh, school boards)
Even so…tell you what, I woke up this morning about 90% less anxious than I have in *years.* And that’s with my doctor informing me yesterday that I likely do have thyroid cancer, and yippee, I get to have surgery soon! Honestly, that was WAY less stressful than the election… O.O
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I’ll pray for your health. and yea, less anxious. Just….. sleepy.
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Thank you, I do appreciate it! And yep, definitely sleepy, heh.
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Prayers up.
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As I told a colleague, “Today is the day when Medicare and reverse mortgage commercials replace political ads. Let us rejoice!”
He stared, then started laughing, and several coworkers joined in.
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I was chatting in a YouTube video premiere this evening, and when it got to the end and the narrator asks folks to watch his next video, I wrote “Now without campaign ads.” There were several LOLs in response. Regardless of one’s political beliefs, everyone is ready for the ads to end.
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Schadenfreude – it tastes like a really good hot fudge sundae.
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does it not?
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Liberal tear sauce makes it even better. [VBEG]
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Clearly the tears should be used to make a salted caramel sauce,
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Oregon voted down ranked choice voting, but I was wondering if it might succumb to a civil rights lawsuit. No good idea how to approach it legally, but turning a yes/no A/B decision to the mess RC does strikes me as something not envisioned by the writers of the constitution.
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Sigh, this was supposed to be a stand-alone comment. WPDE.
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Thank God!
I was afraid greater Portland and Salem would get that one passed.
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My best friend Dee (Blonde Engineer when she’s hanging out here) said Idaho got rid of ranked choice as well, as well as open primaries, and require citizenship to vote. So hooray, progress IS happening!
(Wyoming insists on ID and you verifying your address–but I don’t think they’re requiring proof of citizenship at this point, although they really should.)
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I have no doubt that the “Open Primaries” crowd – what a deceptive way to phrase it – will try again in Idaho, probably during the next midterm.
I hope that they are so stunned and demoralized that they curl into little fetal balls for the next 4 years. But one certainly can’t count on it.
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Guaranteed the “open primary”, “ranked primary”, crowd will try again in Oregon. I too want them to give up. But they won’t.
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I’m happy I get to see the media cry again.
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Me too. It’s probably sinful, but there it is.
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It’s no more sinful than watching Sodom and Gomorrah get what they had coming and smiling about it. You are allowed to approve of His actions.
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Remember the suggestion of Professor Bernardo de la Paz–repeal two laws (or regulations) before you can pass another. I assume this would be besides a budget.
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Not a bad rubric.
I want required analysis of effects.
A bill must
That last may give us an entire legislative body unable to introduce bills. With the exception of the Budget, that’s a feature, not a bug.
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Mark Levin had an interesting idea also. Each federal agency (not department) had to have a stand-alone budget bill once a year. No riders, attachments, etc. I think Defense related may have been two years.
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Per the Constitution, Defense/War is always separate. Or is supposed to be.
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And is limited to 2 years for the Army; one reason for establishing DoD was to duck that limit.
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I like it.
I’d also add that the bill may not include ANYTHING other than the problem it seeks to address and the proposed solutions/remedies. No more pork. No more spending bills attached to ones that have nothing whatsoever to do with the spending bill being attached. No hidden perks for the legislators.
Oh, and a page limit. Not to exceed…hmmm…let’s say 30 pages, max. (since legalese does get a bit wordy. But it still has to be clearly written, and comprehensible to most people.)
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Yes. One item per bill, period. If something can’t be passed without standing on it’s own? Tough. Too bad, too sad.
Including agency budgets. DOD gets it’s own budget. Justice get it’s own budget. SS is divorced from the general budget. With all the extraneous, not related to SS “retirements” pulled out, including SSI for anyone not paid into it, that can be general budget (not saying SSI, or other entitlements currently associated, are bad, just that should be divorced from *SS). USFS own budget bill (separate from Ag). BLM own budget, separating out National Park/National Monuments (which get the short shift from the BLM). Etc. Cannot be lumped into one vote. Each vote on the record. Abstain vote = worst interpretation without an detailed written notarized signed reason is possible so that voting yea or nay is the better option. (Trust me, I’m a novice, and I could easily come up with “Yes, but …” or “No, but …” that would lead to a decline to vote either way. But dang it. Reason should be clear. “Because I would make XYZ angry”, isn’t valid.)
(* Like a lot here, we never expected to have SS. Thus we planned accordingly. If we’d been able to save, even forced save, into separate account from IRA/401(k) that we controlled, earmarked just for us, what we paid in, and what our employers matched, we’d have a lot more coming in per month than we do now; as it is, it stretches the IRA’s/401(k)-rollovers.)
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We’re in good shape, but I really wish I’d signed up for the Thrift Savings Plan as soon as I qualified for it.
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This is the first economic turmoil over the last 46+ years that we (50+ if you count our individual prior fiances) have not been scrambling. Because we planned for possible turmoil. Even at that we were a lot luckier than the majority. Sure, other downturns we were bleeding/hemorrhaging savings, but unlike others we know of, we never touched our taxable brokerage, let alone the tax free/deferred accounts, although came within a few months of touching the former in ’02/’03 before I finally found an entry level job in ’04 that didn’t consider me “overqualified” for the pay (I was, but better than non-existent unemployment after 17 months). Never fully recovered those bleed funds either. OTOH we saved one net salary a month (net after taxes and 401(k)) for 24 years to pull this off (only “spending” that save by moving allowed amounts into the IRA’s at year end). Oh, the external brokerage account insured son got out of college debt free. Planned on the 529 for that, but ’08 hurt that fund. Technically we are bleeding more than we should now. Unlike before we haven’t cut out everything we could. Unlike before, this is what we save for, to be able to do what we wanted after we retired.
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If I Were In Charge (please don’t do that to me), I would like to have a commission of law types with a team of law students or other sharp-eyed flunkies combing though all the laws and regulations out there for ones to repeal. This would include:
The Repeal Commission would, of course, start out with all the stupid laws, and then get into the meat of things once people got bored with the concept.
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There’s some amusing things by progs on X wondering where the 20+ million voters who voted for Biden are… so close, but their programming is deliberately stunted to prevent any real sentience.
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“But the integrity of our elections is protected by robust safeguards. It says so right here, massive cheating is only a consipracy theory! Mis dis mal-information, disregard!”
So, where did they all come from in 2020; then where did they go this year? Oz? The Bermuda Triangle?
Sigh.
“Big Brother is doubleplus ungood!”
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For some mysterious reason they never seem to come to the logical conclusion: If that single election (2020) recorded more ballots than any before or since (and the data says it did, by far), anyone familiar with the Razor would conclude that there were ballots in that election which were “added”, and not cast by voters; it’s the simplest conclusion requiring the fewest assumptions, and is supported by extensive physical evidence.
But NOOOOOOO; instead they ask “Where did the ballots go in this election?”, conveniently forgetting that it was on a par with all previous ones except 2020.
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I think this elections shows that at LEAST 20% of the Dem vote was fraud last time and I think there is another 20% of fraud we couldn’t stop … if good controls are put in place its possible that the GOP will dominate for decades …
The next 4 years needs to be a civic bloodletting where we drain off the un-natural puss that is the Marxist/Woke/DEI believers … and build up the antibodies that prevent it from ever rising again …
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Yep. And let’s face it, the Democratic party needs to reform.
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That’s a funny way to type “dissolved, it’s assets confiscated, and it’s leaders prosecuted under RICO statutes.”
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My thought, too.😁
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Yes, imagine what they’d have to change if they couldn’t rely on the cheat machine to win, but actually had to have candidates sell themselves on their own merits–and face the inevitable consequences if they failed to live up to their promises too many times…
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Until it learns to take accountability, that will remain impossible.
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Accountability need not be assumed; it can also be assigned. Think every criminal conviction.
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That, however, won’t lead to “reform”. It has its own benefits but the Dems reforming is not one of them.
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They can’t ‘reform’ without admitting they were wrong, stupid and/or evil.
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Plus, “reform” has multiple possibilities. If it’s about reforming the Dems within the existing system you’re both correct; that would require acknowledgement on their part. But if it’s about reforming the system by holding them accountable and taking appropriate action, as my comment intended to convey, treating them as criminals works fine as reform.
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On the good news today…. GA is dropping persecution of a gun owner. DOJ is dropping every antiTrump initiative….though I think they are hoping he will let bygones be bygones….rather he should make peace with them the way we did in Stanleyville and Saigon. The rats tried to start something in Seattle about 4 AM. Police shut them down hard.
On a personal front, my apolitical for religious reasons wife spent the last two decades castigating me for supporting Repubs. She had her reasons. The last two weeks she got very angry about my reading news sites….without ever actually discussing what I was really reading. Three days ago, she said something about some news item about Kamala and Trump and our oldest said…..Kamala speaks nonsense all the time. She babbles. My wife said really? He said yes. This morning our youngest son, who is 30, said Trump winning means it will be easier to do his job, which is a state job, but the Feds are always involved. She is less barbed today.
A good day all around
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Most excellent!
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Send the Marines!!! although at this point the Marines may need a little help they have no clue what their purpose is anymore having basically ceded seaborne invasion to Army light infantry…
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Eat crayons and go “oorah!”
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Seems fans of Lehrer’s TW3 are out in force…
“So long, Mom, I’m off to drop The Bomb.”
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Finished net-watching the Harris concession speech (she didn’t drag it out till six after all); so my “2020 PTSD” (that’s officially a thing now) has backed off another few notches.
But one big theme (along with a truly surreal support for the Constitution and our rights under it, etc.) is how she and her supporters won’t give up and won’t stop fighting until they get what they want — essentially, in our terms, the Marxist Long March.
Okay; I guess to many of us, “your terms are acceptable.” Fight, fight, fight — worked just fine. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”
Or as some of my Earth-invades-Mars characters said: they stopped pouring weed killer on the dead stump of Communism. Never stop.
Ever.
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Two things of note re entertainment:
Hollywood is no longer the center of that universe, as this last year it followed the general exodus from the Bear Flag People’s Republic, with more productions happening outside of CA than inside. That is going to have an effect longer term, not with the actors per se (looking at you, washed-up-ex-Avengers line-sayers), but the rest of the production folks coming more and more from those alternate locales will definitely change things over time.
And on the other side, the infotainment industry is in its death throes. I did not once look at any major media source last night. Everything I watched or looked up was alt media, streamers had live reporters at the campaign events and out on the street, and the commentary was not nearly as self-important and self-referential as prior election coverage I watched. Disney stock is down so much not just because of their gutting Lucasfilm and Marvel, but because of the news side of ABC as well.
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Back in the day, I used to tutor at a community college in southern California. A lot of the students there had Spanish last names. And when I was tutoring them in English, I saw that some of them basically were capable of using written language, but had localized quirks like putting Es before Ss, and needed some help with improving their vocabulary and syntax, and that others seemed not to have grasped the idea that language was a means of expressing thought, or learned to ask what thought their words were expressing. And it turned out that the first group had gone to high school in Tijuana and had been taught language skills in Spanish, and the second group had gone to high school in the United States, in bilingual programs, and hadn’t learned those skills in any language. That had a lasting impact on my view of bilingual instruction.
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Kids in bilingual language programs don’t learn either language.
I had to fight to keep my kids off it. With my kids being put in SPANISH programs. Sigh.
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IIRC, I was placed in a “bilingual” kindergarten class all the way back in 1985. I don’t have any recollection of Spanish being spoken there–but, by that point I was reading at a high school senior level, and what I do recall is the teacher pretty much leaving me to my own devices, as I was a quiet and well behaved child.
Beyond that point, however, my mother had at least one annual fight with the principal over the attitude of “Nah, we can just ignore the “gifted” kids, they don’t need anything, but it’s totally fine to make them tutor other kids” he had…
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Being ignored was FINE. I can do ignored like a champ.
Being forced to go over and over the same rote material in lockstep with the tards who didn’t learn it the first four or five times was essentially torture by boredom.
“You MUST do the same work, over and over and over and over, because we don’t want you reading Heinlein or drawing pictures when the other students are LEARNING…”
[twitch]
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This in spades.
Teachers learned quickly they could either let me read in peace. Or I could fidget, loudly. Their call.
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I was “officially” reading 8th grade level at age 7. My young and pretty teacher (it’s a wrench to realize Miss Liebert is in her 80s), bribed me with books so I wouldn’t disrupt nap time.
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Weirdest production of the Helms Deep. ever.
The hordes
Besieged defenders1 played by random domestic terrorists, presidential contenders, and parents.
Ents played by buggy riding Amish.
Elves of Lothlorien played by assorted billionaires.
Eorlingas played by carpenters, mechanics and waitresses.
And Gandalf the White played by a domesticated squirrel.
Not only is real life stranger than fiction, it’s stranger than real life.
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Darn it. Got interrupted and hit comment before I had it edited.
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It was still amazing!
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P’Nut as Gandalf is just…. ::chef’s kiss::
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P’Nut is either Gandalf, or Obi Wan Kenobi saying “If you Strike Me Down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine” to Darth Hochul.
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Yes.
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Just stumbled on this, oddly seems to fit. Background: legit queen who loves her husband is losing ground to a concubine with stolen ideas, before a brave young tailor steps in to make sure no one can overlook her in the court….
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I have one complaint: Trump winning is playing hell with my productivity. If Harris had one, I’d be burying myself in my fantasy worlds, trying to do anything but think about the four years to come. As it is, I get through maybe a paragraph before I need to go back to Twitter and enjoy some more schadenfreude.
So, yeah, the election results are good for the country. They’re good for me and my family long term. But they’re going to be horrible for my NaNo daily word count average.
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Yep, me too. So hard to write during the uproar.
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Wrote badly today. We’ll see about tomorrow.
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Well, I did nothing today, but if she’d won, I’d have been catatonic with fear.
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That, and blinding fury, agreed.
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I had a terrible time focusing at work yesterday (although the heater in our building being busted isn’t helping–and mind you, this morning it was NINE DEGREES outside. It’s btw 51-56 degrees in here and dropping)–but the sense of relief over many of our cubicles was palpable. We may be fedgov employees, but that does not lefties make us! (Really, we’re all only here for the insurance–because the paycheck frankly sucks, at least at the levels where those of us who do actual work are…)
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Edited to add: and maybe, without the stress/anxiety/fear of the last four years, I might even feel like writing again…
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Tell me about it. The Civil Service even in DOD may be more leftist than when I left, but we had a bunch of retired military in our office and, “progressive,” wasn’t a good description.
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“I was afraid they’d consolidate their hold on our election process, so that we’d become essentially California…”
California isn’t all one thing really. It’s just that the three big cities are fully corrupt, like Chicago.
Same thing in Ontario. Toronto is filled with -stupid- liberals who never think beyond buzzwords and who they voted for last time. And to be fair, they haven’t really needed to in the past. Toronto was a wonderful place to live right up until the 1990s, and still pretty good until around 2015-ish, I want to say. It didn’t fully turn to crap until 2019. Killed, by Federal immigration and Federal “justice reform”. You bring in a MILLION foreigners and then you -NEVER- throw them in jail no matter what they do, things do go wrong.
Just like California. Things didn’t really turn to crap until about halfway through Obama’s second term for California. Open border, no jail. Same thing.
But -this- year, in Toronto, the safest Liberal seat in the entire Federal parliament, Toronto-St. Pauls, which has been Liberal since 1935, became a Conservative seat. Corruption and all, they still lost.
From which I conclude that all the corruption and ballot stuffing in the world will not save you when the free citizens of the nation decide you are done.
Also nice to see #HeelsUp recovered from her hangover sufficiently to come out and admit defeat, at like 4pm. I’m not inclined to give her even an inch of slack.
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Oh, she’s had enough inches to make a mile….
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… or Route 66…
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Los Angeles is the sheer population, with large conservative pockets. But the sheer number of people means that the Democratic majority matters quite a bit. I suspect it’s roughly a 2:1 ratio, which also is fairly similar to the rest of the state.
The Bay Area is sheer ratio, with such a high percentage of the population being Democrats that the state is actually controlled by the Bay Area political machine (even though there are quite a lot more people living in Los Angeles).
San Diego as a blue area is a relatively recent thing. The outer counties in the Greater LA Metropolitan Area (Orange, Riverside, Ventura, San Bernadino) are struggling back and forth between blue and red.
The inland parts of the state are almost entirely red.
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One thing worth noting – ballot initiatives are *huge* in California. I’ve heard that they’re more powerful in California than they are in any other state in the country. The upshot of that is that – assuming you can beat the margin of fraud – even the most secure and gerrymandered state legislatures in California can suddenly find themselves in a rather precarious situation if the voters are feeling ornery enough.
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I would, if she were worth the effort. Just enough slack for a 4 to 6-foot drop; no sense in being inhumane.
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Just in case you all missed it – Peanut has taken a victory lap, on harris’ Election Watch gathering stage. Warning: dirty words.
Disclaimer: Is this real? Who knows? But even if it’s fiction it’s awesome.
https://x.com/LauraPowellEsq/status/1854275970041360541
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It is real. LOL
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RLF scouts.
The RLF is everywhere.
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OMG that is glorious. And real!!! Truly, cosmic justice and humor on display here.
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Peanut has returned as Peanut the White, more powerful than ever.
Okay, maybe P’nut a little bit lighter in color, at most, but anyway.
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My formerly beloved state of Colorado might have a chance, if the odious Jenna Griswold is arrested by the new DOJ for her corruption.
Arrest the Dominion CEO for treason. Ban all voting machines. Make election day a National Holiday, as Vivek has promoted, and nothing but paper ballots, id, and purple fingers.
Colorado will turn back to the original color it was named for. I don’t live there anymore, but i have family there. I want vengance.
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It will always be the home of my heart, and I too want vengeance.
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The media-academia-government complex must be shattered, taken, or rendered powerless.
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And we need our side to start participating again, or we risk a return the crisis of the past few years.
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Unfortunately, NH reelected that damn Marxist Chris Pappas. Idiots need to learn that jumping from one side of the ballot to the other does nothing useful.
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Since Teh Hair Gel People’s Bear Flag Republic is just a lock in the D column forever, yeah I should leave, but there’s reasons, here’s some math excluding California:
If you take the current national popular vote totals and subtract California votes (working from the NYT site counts as that kept getting referenced last night by everyone), you get Kammy 61,992,245 vs. DJT 68,404,979, for a popular vote margin of 6,412,734 non-CA votes, which is 4.9% of the non-CA votes cast for both of these two candidates. To put it another way, outside of locked-blue California, Kammy only got 90.6% of the votes received by DJT.
If this is what a close election looks like, what’s a landslide?
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The Reader would define a landslide as taking back CA and NY from the Marxists. The Usain version of the Long March.
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Regarding the “post videos” thing, there’s always this classic from 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn9Xsmj942E
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Franklin: “Just a moment, Mr. Dickinson. Mr. Secretary, I request you poll the delegation.”
Dickinson: “A poll?”
Franklin: “It’s a proper request.”
–The Holy Musical, showing how it’s done.
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Our brains are wonderful things, but do have some quirky software. Just like conformation bias and snap judgements, all of us tend to think of groups as cohesive and uniform, just because they’re described as ‘a group’.
Sarah has cautioned us about the pitfalls of treating the USA as a single, easily described entity. The same problems exist when we think of election results.
Couldn’t help but notice in the BBC election coverage, they had charts showing state-level results grouped as “Leaning Dem”, “Solid Dem” & “Contested” (and of course the same grouping for Repubs.)
And in all groupings, 4 in 10 voters chose the other party (the exception – Solid Repub states it was closer to only 3 in 10 supported the Dems). There isn’t anything close to enclaves at the state level, and IMO not many at the local (county) level.
So what? Well, going forward I expect that any changes to the status quo will be resisted by AT LEAST a large minority. And nothing will be easy. So I agree, celebrate a bit, then it’s “Break’s over, back on your heads”
Steve O
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Even in solid locked blue CA, the current vote count totals are 5.8m (57.3%) Kammy, 4.0m (40.1%) DJT, and that’s with zero campaigning here, only tiny leak over from other state spending and any national buys on sports broadcasts and such.
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You have probably seen the Zero Hedge chart showing 20 million or so votes having disappeared from the popular vote total in comparison to 2020, which many commenters are citing as clear evidence of nonexistent/fraudulent votes in the last election.
However… Eugene Volokh has pointed out that this chart is comparing apples to oranges because the 2024 vote total is still incomplete, with millions of votes still being counted in CA and other states. He predicts that those remaining votes will probably break about 60-40 or maybe 55-45 for Kamala, which will boost BOTH final vote totals to levels more comparable to 2020. He’s predicting a final total of about 76 M for Kamala and 79 M for Trump.
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Current NYT total votes for DJT + Kammy is 140,845,081. 2020 total votes for lol81million + DJt was 155,507,476, for a delta of -14,662,395.
I highly doubt they will find 15 million uncounted votes in the couch cushions in those slow count states.
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voting population was higher too and the age cohort mix was skewed young. This should have been a dem benefit since 18 year old voters are portrayed as their voters since they’re completely inexperience with life.
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No. Sorry. There was still fraud. Just not end of the night push fraud. PRESIDENT81MILLIONLOL
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If it’s the same tweet I saw, the claim was that since California had about 10 million votes left to count, the over 20 million fewer for Kamala would shake out easily enough.
….just, used more paragraphs to say it, and a chart.
For obvious reasons, I’m not persuaded.
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I’d say it’s generally more like 3 in 10. The rest remains fraud.
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I mean for the dems. WE REALLY NEED TO CLEAN OUT THE FRAUD.
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As seen elsewhere* “Latinos got called Latinx one too many times and voted Trump”.
*Someday I figure out how to add images to comments.
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If you can get it to pop up, you can do like I did and post the picture to Twitter, then copy the image link to insert.
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I’m ‘working on alternatives’ but the need to work limits the budget…
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Same with writing, and trying to get comics going and… yeah
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well, the plan is to eventually re-use the comic assets….
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In my case, mostly being sick limits time.
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Here in deep blue Illinois Kamala won by only 8 points (53 to 45) which is actually a HUGE swing to the right from 2020 and 2016, when Bribehim and Cankles won IL by 17 points. I belive there was a similar rightward swing in NY as well. It may not have changed the electoral vote but it helped boost Trump’s popular vote total
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On the “Spain tearing down her hydroelectric plants and dams on eco freak bs, then getting floods and blaming it on “global warming.” Libs believed this nonsense and also did not understand why there were dams there in the first place. Just “dams and cheap electricity bad.” Well the floods in Asheville NC were the result of not building a much needed dam to protect that area. The TVA identified the need years ago but NIMBY libs would not let it get built.
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I believe we must anaswer to that constitutional guarantee of a republican form of government by making the “r” a capital letter. (“R”) In essence, we must outlaw the Democrat party so far as we can without eviscerating the First Amendment. (Requires true genius to figure out how (and, no, I have no clue myself).)
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Maybe. We don’t want a single party. BUT the current Democrat party is a racket under political cover.
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Sarah, a few suggestions
One: if asked, would you be willing to serve in a Trump administration?
Two: would you be willing to create your own Department? I’d suggest you cover Infrastructure. Famous operating phrase: If it ain’t right, tear it down. Build it right or not at all.
Also, during the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, the Israelites rebuilt Jerusalem with one hand, whilst the other held onto a weapon.
This is an excellent plan for patriots now, as we seek to rebuild the Republic.
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If asked, of course. But infrastructure? I always assumed Press Secretary. “Moose and squirrel. Don’t make me carp you.”
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Speaking of Press Seccy, I think we should start the grassroots groundswell here for the next Dem nominee – I say KJP 2028!
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Just came across an interesting link—someone who wrote down all the problems he had with Harris and why he was voting for her anyway. It’s a fascinating view into a logical process that doesn’t track the way you’d expect it to go. “The Machine is awful, but I’m voting for it anyway.”
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You could point at a whole host of points where the Democrats lost, but looking back now, their losing move was frauding Biden and Harris into power to begin with. A senile has-been and a brainless never-was were just what Trump needed as opponents.
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Problem with President Trump #45 is he thought he could come in and set the office of the Presidency as a business. He was wrong, and not wrong. Yes, he was able to get some things done. But where he was wrong is where he was hobbled, and failed. Wrong because he was advised on the wrong people (backstabber insiders that they are). That hurt him in 2020. 2024 those hard lessons showed. President Trump is a fast learner. We’ll see what his choices are for his people this time. At least with the Senate he should be able to get his choices confirmed.
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So did LOTS of people judging by how many people, some of them here, showed how little they thought about the hiring process that a CEO doesn’t have to go through vs a President.
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Didn’t say President Trump was the only one. Regardless, #47 now knows better.
Already some in Senate and Congress turning down positions in #47 positions. Not that they don’t want them but don’t want to have #47 lose the slim margin in Senate, and (maybe) house (guessing can’t guaranty tapped replacement won’t be a GOPe lite, or democrat, regardless on how the replacement is chosen or assigned).
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“Knows better” and “can do something about it” are not the same.
He knows the FBI background check is run by his enemies…. can he refuse to use them?
He knows that “Candidate X” is who he wants…. will the Senate confirm? Or will it be Jeff Sessions again?
And will the bureaucracy follow directions from an “Acting”? “Malicious compliance” is a two edged sword (or is that 3 edged? Kosh?).
Don’t give up…. but don’t underestimate the problems, either.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2024/11/07/scott-jennings-has-a-reminder-for-angry-dems-on-trumps-mandate-n2647424
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Too true.
OTOH #47 President Trump is also a graduate of NYC business 101. If he hasn’t figured out a series of road maps to work around a lot of it, I’d be surprised. Will those road maps work? 🤷No clue.
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THISTHISTHISTHIS
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Another thing they could have done would have been to hold the senile kiddie-sniffer to his old promise (I distinctly remember this) of serving only one term, and actually holding competitive caucuses and primaries, instead of coronating the Dotard the way they did Hillary in 2016, and then forcing him to step aside for Cackling Kamala, who couldn’t get votes in ADX Florence with a fistful of pardons in one hand and the keys to the joint in the other. But the “Democratic” party does not run very democratically.
When my friends and I heard about how Kamala and her friends had mounted a palace coup, we were all joking about living in the board game <i>Junta</i>, and wondering when the “ceremonial shelling of the Presidential Palace” would commence.
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Saw somebody (no idea who they are, some blue check) posting on Xwitter about how now is the time for MAGA to reach out and heal with Democratic voters. Basically, “they may have called you garbage, but you don’t have to BE garbage.”
I partially agree with this. For your garden-variety wine mom or random Democratic voter who fell for the BS, there’s no need to go crazy.
But.
For academia? For the leftist party machinery? For Antifa? For Hollywood? For Soros and his internationalist “eat ze boogs” ilk? For the Democratic leadership at all levels? For woke activists? For the entrenched bureaucratic Deep State?
No. No negotiation, no quarter, no mercy. War to the knife. Sound the el deguello and raise the bloody flag. Total destruction, salt the earth, until leftism is only spoken in Hell.
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Saw somebody (no idea who they are, some blue check) posting on Xwitter about how now is the time for MAGA to reach out and heal with Democratic voters.
That presupposes that the Democrat voters want to heal with MAGA.
I think most of them would rather scream in their echo chambers about how they’re going to be murdered, without ever stopping long enough to realize that they’re still alive and no one has made any move against them.
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THIS
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Interesting number crunching sidelight here: If the numbers I just looked at hold up (vote totals, percentage counted, and percentage won by Trump) – he will end up with eighty-SEVEN million popular votes.
The Democrat-Marxist Party is doing nasty things in their underwear today, because they know that THOSE numbers are after their BEST attempts at frauding another election. They are REAL!
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Oh. That’s why they’re subdued and doing the dance of “don’t hurt us”
Okay
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Sarah, that link I put in is showing this isn’t universal.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2024/11/07/scott-jennings-has-a-reminder-for-angry-dems-on-trumps-mandate-n2647424
We’re also seeing a declaration of “sanctuary state” from Maine.
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My offering of interesting links; different aspects of the same song.
I think it sort of expresses where we are, though the author might not
think so. Many here might be familiar with it, but for the rest;
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZHjOnoR8ZI&list=RDAOHpOfc1e7S04M9LBMkwOweA
https://marcgunn.com/freedom-costs-lyrics/
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Also, gotta wonder what advisor was telling the Harris campaign to keep hitting the “Suckers and losers!”/”Very fine people!” note over and over and over again. Clearly somebody thought that was a winning strategy.
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